BOSTON, June 13 -- The signs that explained why the glaciers in Acadia are melting, the wall panels at Independence Hall that named the enslaved people who lived under George Washington's roof, the climate exhibit at Fort Sumter that connected Civil War history to a rising Charleston Harbor: all of these came down across the spring under a Trump executive order that called such content disparaging. On Friday a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered them put back.

The ruling came from US District Judge Angel Kelley in the District of Massachusetts, in a case The Hill reported was brought by the National Parks Conservation Association, the Union of Concerned Scientists and four other groups against Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the Na...